Joobin BekhradJoobin Bekhrad is the founder and Editor of Reorient, an acclaimed publication about the contemporary arts and culture of the Middle East. He has also contributed to other publications such as the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, The Guardian, Anthroplogy of the Middle East, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Christie’s, and Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, been interviewed by news outlets including Newsweek and the CBC, and seen his writings republished in a wide variety of languages. In 2015, Joobin was granted an International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC) by London s Royal College of Art. He is also the author of a translation of Omar Khayyam’s poems from Persian into English, as well as a foreword to Mahdi Ehsaei’s Afro-Iran. Read More Read Less